Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Florence

It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.

Wayne Dyer

During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

Virginia Satir

I am me and I am okay.

Robin Quivers

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

Zig Ziglar

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Akihiko Sakakibara

I haven't seen any recovery in fundamentals in Japan. We are just back at square one.

Nancy Pelosi

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Heather Mills

Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

Mallory Ortberg

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

Thomas White

He is so out of control with his crack addiction that he is willing to do armed robberies to support it,

George Sheehan

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

William S. Burroughs

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

William S. Burroughs

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

Sarah Silverman

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

Rodney King

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Robin Williams

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Roger Babson

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

William J. Brennan

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

Virginia Woolf

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.